Chicago Fire Spreading? NBC Considering Police-Centric Spinoff Series

Some infernos are just too hot to extinguish. And that seems to be the case with NBC’s Chicago Fire.

The network is reportedly considering the idea of turning the freshman drama’s Season 1 finale into a pilot episode for a spinoff series centered around the Windy City’s police department, according to our sister site Deadline.com.

Chicago Fire recently got its initial 22-episode order extended to 24, and despite its most recent episode cooling down 4 and 15 percent in the overnights to 6.33 million total viewers and a 1.7 demo rating, it’s been a bright spot for struggling Peacock NBC.

Would you watch a Chicago Fire spinoff? Or is it too early for the network to be extending the brand? Hit the comments with your thoughts!

I’m not against this idea. But having the planted backdoor pilot this season just feels too rushed – especially if they’re thinking of doing it for the finale. If they held off until early next season to do it, it would be more thought-out.

I was thinking this too. I wouldn’t mind a spinoff centering on the police department at all (Dawson’s brother is a good starting point for that cast) but it seems awfully early to plan for something like that to happen this year heading into the fall season. Maybe they should hold off on the spinoff until next season when they can flesh things out better and use CF a little more to build into it. =)

Inferno, really? LOL! How could you possible call a 1.7 an inferno. On any other network this show would have been cancelled. It’s only because it is on pathetic NBC that it has even survived and now they want to make a spin-off! Poor NBC, what has become of you.

There’s actually a little bit of a misconception. It’s not always about going against shows on other networks. It’s also how the shows perform internally within the network. Yes, a 1.7 would get cancelled on any of the networks (excluding CW) in a hearbeat, but for NBC, that’s exactly what they need. If their shows were getting a 2.3+, then CF wouldn’t stand a chance.

I agree, I would like for it to follow Jon Seda’s character, since he’s the prominent police officer on “Chicago Fire.” I’d definitely watch the spinoff; I’ve liked these types of shows ever since NBC’s “Third Watch.”

Why can’t NBC just send all its viewers the same drugs their executives must be taking? Then, at least, we’d all be on the same delusional page. I think one of the reasons Chicago Fire has seen some success is because it’s a little bit different than the usual police procedural (and the fact that it’s in a time slot without any real competition). But really NBC? Another police show? You really think that’s a winner?

TWITTER ALERT: Chicago Fire Showrunner/EP Derek Haas tweeted (Twitter: @popcornhaas) earlier this moring the words “Dahh-Donnk!” (The Law & Order card sound) I just would not be surprised if Chicago Fire “spinned off” ‘Law & Order: Chicago’, which isn’t really a bad idea and I’d love to see CF tied with the L&O world (like NCIS: LA did with Hawaii Five-0).

But I want NBC to cancel/end SVU if they go forward with ‘Law & Order: Chicago’. SVU has gotten out of hand under Warren Leight anyway — but that’s a subject for another post on another day. Congrats to Wolf and the multi-talented cast and writing crew of Chicago Fire.

SVU has had its ups and downs this season. There were a few episodes I truly cringed at (which is rare from me). I think the show can still do well if they avoid the obvious ripped from the headlines (Chris Brown/Rihanna).

The thing is, the mothership started as a show about the stories and less about the characters, which was why it was so hard to cope with Christopher Meloni leaving (similar with D’Onofrio/Erbe ((though I’d argue that’s more character focused than both SVU and the mothership combined))). Anyway, I digress. xD

I tried to stick it out with S14 of SVU, but when Mike Tyson (convicted rapist/alleged wife-beater) was cast and I saw how show runner/EP Warren Leight handled (or didn’t handle) it on Twitter, it was time for me to dip out of SVU.

Since season 14 started I was looking for a reason to stop watching (because I was getting bored with it), after the episode “Twenty-Five Acts,” (which IMO brought on SVU’s next best ADA, Rafael Barba (Raul Esparza) the season started to go down. Ep 300 had more hype than what was delivered. Lately it just seems SVU has to “rip a headline” or bring some personal drama to someone (mostly Amaro and Rollins)every other week, there is no more original creativeness.

I’m still an SVU-diehard, just of the show’s earlier seasons though. It’s not about Chris Meloni being gone why SVU sucks, it’s because Warren Leight doesn’t have the same “charisma” Neal Baer once had when he first joined the series in 2001. SVU can stay or go as far as I’m concerned. But if “Law & Order: Chicago” is indeed the spinoff of Chicago Fire, I hope CF’s writers head/run the project and nobody frm SVU comes to the show, except casting director Jonathan Strauss.